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Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers

Language Accommodation is “we adjust our communicational behavior to maintain integrity, distance or identity” (Giles and Coupland,1991:66). Do lawyers shift their discourse norms in order to obtain the information required from witnesses in a courtroom? In this study, 24 lawyers were interviewed...

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Main Authors: David, Maya Khemlani, Gan, Kah Hui, David, Yoong, Singh, Balbir
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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P Philology. Linguistics
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spelling my.um.eprints.31622013-12-11T07:48:47Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/ Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers David, Maya Khemlani Gan, Kah Hui David, Yoong Singh, Balbir P Philology. Linguistics Language Accommodation is “we adjust our communicational behavior to maintain integrity, distance or identity” (Giles and Coupland,1991:66). Do lawyers shift their discourse norms in order to obtain the information required from witnesses in a courtroom? In this study, 24 lawyers were interviewed to elicit the strategies and discourse norms used when questioning the elderly, minors, women and uneducated. The findings are discussed. This is part of a larger study where courtroom discourse is observed to determine if the perceptions of the lawyers are realized in authentic settings. Keywords: accommodation, courtroom, discourse 2010-02-26 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/1/Linguistic_Accommodation.pdf David, Maya Khemlani and Gan, Kah Hui and David, Yoong and Singh, Balbir (2010) Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers. In: Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Humanities, Historical and Social Sciences (CHHSS 2010), 26-28 February, 2010, Singapore. (Unpublished)
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language English
topic P Philology. Linguistics
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
David, Maya Khemlani
Gan, Kah Hui
David, Yoong
Singh, Balbir
Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers
description Language Accommodation is “we adjust our communicational behavior to maintain integrity, distance or identity” (Giles and Coupland,1991:66). Do lawyers shift their discourse norms in order to obtain the information required from witnesses in a courtroom? In this study, 24 lawyers were interviewed to elicit the strategies and discourse norms used when questioning the elderly, minors, women and uneducated. The findings are discussed. This is part of a larger study where courtroom discourse is observed to determine if the perceptions of the lawyers are realized in authentic settings. Keywords: accommodation, courtroom, discourse
format Conference or Workshop Item
author David, Maya Khemlani
Gan, Kah Hui
David, Yoong
Singh, Balbir
author_facet David, Maya Khemlani
Gan, Kah Hui
David, Yoong
Singh, Balbir
author_sort David, Maya Khemlani
title Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers
title_short Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers
title_full Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers
title_fullStr Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers
title_full_unstemmed Linguistic Accommodation: Perception of Malaysian Lawyers
title_sort linguistic accommodation: perception of malaysian lawyers
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/3162/1/Linguistic_Accommodation.pdf
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